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And if I hadn't lived this life as an economic hit man, I...

And if I hadn't lived this life as an economic hit man, I think I'd have a hard time believing that anybody does these things.

Quote by John Perkins about economy, things, time, man, life

And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn't buy. When the economic hit men fail in this scenario, the next step is what we call the jackals.

Quote by John Perkins about success, commerce, man

And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we...

Quote by John Perkins about politics, companies, nation, change, country, money, work, people

Basically, what Economic Hit Men are trained to do is to build up the American empire. To create situations where as many resources as possible flow into this country, to our corporations, and our government, and in fact we've been very successful.

Quote by John Perkins about economy, companies, americans, country, man

But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had to be told because what happened at 9/11 is a direct result of what the economic hit men are doing.

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Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of...

Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing.

Quote by John Perkins about opinion, problems

House of Saud would agree to maintain the price of oil within acceptable limits to us, which they've done all of these years, and we would agree to keep the House of Saud in power as long as they did this, which we've done, which is one of the...

Quote by John Perkins about home, house, limits, war, power

I believe the World Bank and other institutions can be turned around and do what they were originally intended to do, which is help reconstruct devastated parts of the world. Help genuinely help poor people. There are twenty-four thousand people...

Quote by John Perkins about opinion, help, bankers, world, change, people, death, faith, day

I come from a very old New England family, Calvinist, steeped in amazingly strong moral values. I think I, you know, I'm a good person overall, and I think my story really shows how this system and these powerful drugs of sex, money and power can...

Quote by John Perkins about origin, drugs, people, family, moral, money, power, old, olderness, sex

I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was...

I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for me.

Quote by John Perkins about time, power, drugs, money, sex

I knew the jackals were closing in on him, and the next...

I knew the jackals were closing in on him, and the next thing, his plane exploded with a tape recorder with a bomb in it.

Quote by John Perkins about opinion, things

I was doing things I was being patted on the back for. I...

I was doing things I was being patted on the back for. I was chief economist. I was doing things that Robert McNamara liked and so on

Quote by John Perkins about opinion, things, being

I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations.

Quote by John Perkins about affair, companies, security, nation, school

I worked very, very closely with the World Bank, the...

I worked very, very closely with the World Bank, the World Bank provides most of the money that's used by economic hit men, it and the I.M.F.

Quote by John Perkins about work, bankers, world, money, man

Saddam Hussein's bodyguards were too good. He had doubles. They couldn't get through to him. So the third line of defense, if the economic hit men and the jackals fail, the next line of defense is our young men and women, who are sent in to die...

Quote by John Perkins about opinion, man, death, good, good luck

So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It's a huge empire....

Quote by John Perkins about interest, country

The only way that we're going to feel secure in this country again and that we're going to feel good about ourselves is if we use these systems we've put into place to create positive change around the world. I really believe we can do that.

Quote by John Perkins about country, change, use, faith, world, good, good luck

The poor people in those countries would be stuck ultimately with this amazing debt that they couldn't possibly repay. A country today like Ecuador owes over fifty percent of its national budget just to pay down its debt. And it really can't do...

Quote by John Perkins about nation, country, people

The Treasury Department would use the interest from these securities to hire U.S. companies to build Saudi Arabia new cities, new infrastructure which we've done.

Quote by John Perkins about companies, interest, use

There's no question in my mind that it was C.I.A. sanctioned, and most many Latin American investigators have come to the same conclusion. Of course, we never heard about that in our country.

Quote by John Perkins about mind, question, americans, country

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